It Wasn't Supposed to be an Issue!
Immigration wasn’t supposed to be an issue in this election. All the pundits said so—it was going to be about the economy and jobs.
Of course, this just shows how utterly clueless Establishment commentary is...immigration IS a jobs issue.
Over 100,000 legal immigrants enter the workforce every month—completely swamping current anemic job growth, although you never see this point made in Main Stream Media reporting of the monthly unemployment data.
Ed Rubenstein has calculated that, as of early December, immigrant displacement of American workers had increased by over 6 percent during the Obama Administration—something else you won’t read in the MSM. (Why not?)
..Immigration is the Queen of public policy issues: all other issues turn out to have an immigration dimension.
But, nevertheless, immigration still became an issue in this election—because ordinary Americans kept bringing it up at candidate meetings and on the campaign trail.
The immigration issue dramatically derailed Governor Rick Perry, who thought it could be brushed aside with a condescending quip as if he were in a Texas country club.
Even candidates who have previously endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens, like Mitt Romney and "New" Gingrich, are doing their best to disguise the fact.
Why not:
- An anti-unemployment immigration moratorium (i.e. on legal immigration, which is much larger than illegal immigration and just as out of control);
- Reform of the birthright citizenship interpretation of the 14th Amendment—so that the political impact of the U.S.-born children of illegals is neutralized, along with the Democrats’ incentive to import more of them;
- Impeach President Obama—or at least Attorney General Holder—over the Administrative Amnesty, reported on VDARE.com but almost nowhere else, that they have now imposed through their abuse of “prosecutorial discretion.” They swore to uphold the laws, didn’t they?
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